Max Beckmann Quotes

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.